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Modal Passes $1B ARR and Hits a $16B Valuation on Demand for Sandboxes
Modal topped $1B in annualized revenue, raised $750M at a $16B valuation and launched nearly 3B sandboxes. Its CEO explains why GPU demand doesn't fit into contracts.
Anthropic reveals how it builds Claude with Claude: the brain separate from the hands
Anthropic's heads of engineering and product explain how Opus 5.5 and Managed Agents work. Revenue per employee rose from $1.4M to $6.6M in a year.
Anthropic Turns Claude Code Into a Platform: Claude Mods Flip the Agent Harness
TypeScript mods for Claude Code intercept prompts and tool calls. The author tested them in practice: the supervisor fired in 99 of 111 turns.
Anthropic files S-1 for IPO at $2 trillion valuation: 85% margin, profitable Q2
Anthropic's S-1 discloses Q2 revenue of $11.6 billion (+1368%), operating profit of $974 million and an 85% gross margin. Ticker ANT, Nasdaq listing.
Thomson Reuters engineer runs an offline coding agent on Qwen3.5 9B in the Himalayas
Rittika Jindal built a coding agent from OpenCode, Ollama and Qwen3.5 9B. It runs on a laptop with no internet: it finds a bug, fixes one line and passes 5 of 5 tests.
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: 2.8 trillion parameters, weights due November 4
Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model, takes a top-4 spot on the Artificial Analysis index with 55 points. Tokens are a third cheaper, but a task costs almost as much as on K3.
Goodfire Researcher Claims Neural Networks Are Far Simpler Than Interpretability Experts Thought
Nick Cammarata of Goodfire argues that most neurons in trillion-parameter models are actually readable by humans. The famous examples of "tangled" neurons, he says, were simply misread in the first place.
Modal Raises $750M at a $15.75B Valuation and Reaches $1B in ARR
New York AI infrastructure provider Modal tripled its valuation in five months and grew usage 15x in a year. The main driver is agent sandboxes, with a $300M run rate.
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer: 155 trillion tokens a day and an 80% margin
DeepSeek has open-sourced the V4.1 Flash inference engine. It claims 155 trillion tokens a day from one cluster, a 96% cache hit rate and about $22 million in daily revenue.
Meta opens Muse Spark at 816B, Reflection releases Beam under Apache 2.0
Muse Spark Open scored 39 on Artificial Analysis, making it the strongest American open-weights model. Reflection Beam 1.0 (501B) is second with 30.